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Architects And Historians Wonder: Maybe The New Notre Dame Should Be Less “Overburdened” [tr]
Hot Air ^ | April 17, 2019 | Allahpundit

Posted on 04/17/2019 8:49:34 AM PDT by C19fan

I don’t share Michael Brendan Dougherty’s faith but I do share his impulse in reading this Rolling Stone piece: “I promise right now. If you try to rebuild it as a ‘secular’ Notre Dame, reflecting the political priorities of 2019, I will do my damndest to see that the next fire takes it all down. I won’t come alone.”

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; christrendom; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; history; koranimals; notredame; paris
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To: C19fan

Just wait until they make the new Rose Window a crescent and place prayer rugs inside.

The local lib Austin, TX news station has the Notre Dame fire listed under “Entertainment” along with Carly Simon and Bill Cosby. https://www.kxan.com/entertainment-news


21 posted on 04/17/2019 9:17:26 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: C19fan
Ah, yes.

"Welcome to Notre Dame Museum of All Religions, including Pseudo-Religions, Religions of One Person or Animal, Cults, Drug-based Religions, all forms of Atheism, Gender-base Religions, Religions of Love and/or Hate, and anything we have overlooked."

22 posted on 04/17/2019 9:25:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: dfwgator
It will be a mosque within 50 years.

You wild Optimist!

23 posted on 04/17/2019 9:27:10 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: C19fan

In the spirit of multiculturalism, why not rebuild Notre Dame as a cathedral, a mosque, a synagogue, and a temple of atheism? Each of the “faiths” could share the building on a rotating basis.

Instead of the spire topped by a cross, the spire could alternately display a crescent, a star of David, a cross, and a picture of Richard Dawkins. Then everybody would be equally unhappy, and the great god of multiculturalism would be properly worshipped.


24 posted on 04/17/2019 9:34:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Red Badger
They should preserve the Gothic design, but in modern materials.

They used "modern materials" when they re-did the cupola and dome on our county courthouse.

The "modern material" was STYROFOAM!

Now we have a new problem. The styrofoam is being destroyed by pigeon pecking and droppings.

25 posted on 04/17/2019 9:39:08 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: C19fan

I KNEW IT!

It’s gonna be a mosque.


26 posted on 04/17/2019 9:47:08 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Roccus

Sounds like somebody didn’t do their homework at the architect’s office.......................


27 posted on 04/17/2019 9:50:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: C19fan

The Nazis destroyed the medieval Coventry Cathedral in 1940. The spire, and the outer walls are all that exist. They built the new one right next to it, and it’s very modern, not anything I admire. I visited the site on a bus tour I took in 2006.


28 posted on 04/17/2019 9:55:26 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Blitz firemen recall 1940 battle for St Paul’s Cathedral

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-12088114/blitz-firemen-recall-1940-battle-for-st-paul-s-cathedral


29 posted on 04/17/2019 9:56:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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They can get real hip and sell kale smoothies too


30 posted on 04/17/2019 9:56:43 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: madison10
"The French were foolish to give their church to the state."

The English were foolish to make a King, the head of the church. He destroyed many, and confiscated their land, and wealth.

31 posted on 04/17/2019 9:59:20 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

Now they’re talking about spending $75,000 or more for some cock-a-mamie way of keeping the pigeons off.

I don’t know for sure, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the architect is the brother-in-law (or whatever) of the guy getting the new contract.

Personally, I think they should just hire a falconer. They could hook-up with the local college and the nearby State Wildlife Center and charge for falconry classes to offset costs.


32 posted on 04/17/2019 10:07:30 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

Just put up some plastic owls like they do here................


33 posted on 04/17/2019 10:08:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: dfwgator
"It will be a mosque within 50 years."

I believe most Catholic churches, alters, and other religious objects are consecrated/sanctified by religious service. I also believe they need to be deconsecrated before the church can be used for any other purpose. Notre Dame most likely remains consecrated since they hold services there on a regular basis. It will be interesting to see how Rome reacts if they try to turn it into anything other than the Catholic cathedral it was originally built and consecrated to be.

34 posted on 04/17/2019 10:09:05 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator
How St. Paul's remained basically unscathed, while the rest of London was burned by incendiary bombs, is a miracle.

20 facts you might not know about the Coventry Blitz

35 posted on 04/17/2019 10:14:35 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: C19fan

When Civilizations Collide

From burnt down church spires to newly risen call to prayer towers..

EUrabia has set the stage for the coming New Dark Ages.


36 posted on 04/17/2019 10:30:45 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: C19fan

37 posted on 04/17/2019 10:35:27 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: wastoute

There’s a story about Oxford, and the people who built the Great Hall there. They day they completed it, they planted trees.

The reason was because the wood from those trees would be needed 100 years hence to replace the structural members.

Some forward thinking people there.


38 posted on 04/17/2019 10:38:20 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: bgill

I assume you’ve read The Mosque of Notre Dame, a dystopian novel by a Russian author published a few years ago. I think it’s going to become a reality.


39 posted on 04/17/2019 10:58:07 AM PDT by livius
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To: mass55th

Yes. I do think that is why the Muslims are infiltrating our government: the United Caliphate States.


40 posted on 04/17/2019 11:05:58 AM PDT by madison10
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